🔸 Iran’s Statistics Center announced on Sunday, 29 Shahrivar, that the economic growth rate in the first three months of the current year is negative 10.1 percent.

🔸 Based on the report of this center, reflected in the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), the country’s gross domestic product in these three months was 21,795 billion rials, which is more than 10 percent lower compared with the same period last year, when it was 24,255 billion rials.

🔸 According to the calculations of this center, only the agriculture sector had a positive growth of 2.3 percent, while industry and mining had a negative growth of 14.7 percent and the services sector had negative growth of 4.8 percent.

🔸 The significant decline in Iran’s economic growth has come following the start of the 40-day war, while the inflation growth rate in the country has also increased sharply and, based on the latest figures announced, has reached about 80 percent.

🔸 On the other hand, the value of Iran’s national currency also declined continuously in Shahrivar, and the price of the US dollar set fresh records; meanwhile, senior officials of the government have also reported severe restrictions on exports and imports and an energy deficit.

🔸 This is while the second round of the US maritime blockade against Iranian ports, which began on 23 Tir, is still